# io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp (mcpb · pdf-mcp-3.6.0.mcpb)

Agentic RAG over one PDF or a whole folder: hybrid search, selective page reads, tables, OCR.

- Trust score: 54/100 (low)
- Change this week: 0
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- mcpb · `pdf-mcp-3.6.0.mcpb`: 54/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jztan-pdf-mcp/https-github-com-jztan-pdf-mcp-releases-download-v3-4-0-pdf-mcp-3-4-0-mcpb.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jztan-pdf-mcp/https-github-com-jztan-pdf-mcp-releases-download-v3-4-0-pdf-mcp-3-4-0-mcpb)
- pypi · `pdf-mcp`: 77/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jztan-pdf-mcp/pdf-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/jztan-pdf-mcp/pdf-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `mcpb`
- Package: `https://github.com/jztan/pdf-mcp/releases/download/v3.6.0/pdf-mcp-3.6.0.mcpb`
- Transport: `stdio`
- SHA-256: `c5f440c35e0ab33a5568f4f4a3339974832c66d9e3a1590c067bc79d11650ca9`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 0/100
  - No malware scan is available for this kind of package: the supply-chain vendors we use do not cover it. This is a permanent gap in our coverage, not a finding about the package.
  - Known CVEs could not be checked: we found no dependency list to check in this bundle: either it runs a compiled binary, whose bundled manifests we do not read, or none of the package.json, requirements.txt, pyproject.toml or uv.lock files it ships for its runtime declares a dependency we can read (a requirements.txt that only points at a setup.py project, a local path, or a nested requirements file we cannot follow counts as none).
  - Install-script risk not yet assessed.
  - Dependency health could not be checked: we found no dependency list to check in this bundle: either it runs a compiled binary, whose bundled manifests we do not read, or none of the package.json, requirements.txt, pyproject.toml or uv.lock files it ships for its runtime declares a dependency we can read (a requirements.txt that only points at a setup.py project, a local path, or a nested requirements file we cannot follow counts as none).
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 48/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 4 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 69/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 887 tokens (~68/item across 13 items; 13 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 100/100
  - No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 13 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 13 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp server?

io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp ships as an MCPB bundle, a single file you download and open in an MCP host that supports MCPB bundles, such as Claude Desktop. The host reads the launch command from the bundle's own manifest, so there is no command to copy. Before opening it, check the file's SHA-256 matches the one the MCP registry declares for it, c5f440c35e0ab33a5568f4f4a3339974832c66d9e3a1590c067bc79d11650ca9; the commands to do that are on this page. If it does not match, do not open it.

- Download bundle: `https://github.com/jztan/pdf-mcp/releases/download/v3.6.0/pdf-mcp-3.6.0.mcpb`
- SHA-256: `c5f440c35e0ab33a5568f4f4a3339974832c66d9e3a1590c067bc79d11650ca9`

### Verify on macOS / Linux

```bash
echo "c5f440c35e0ab33a5568f4f4a3339974832c66d9e3a1590c067bc79d11650ca9  pdf-mcp-3.6.0.mcpb" | shasum -a 256 -c
```

### Verify on Windows (PowerShell)

```powershell
(Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 .\pdf-mcp-3.6.0.mcpb).Hash -eq "c5f440c35e0ab33a5568f4f4a3339974832c66d9e3a1590c067bc79d11650ca9"
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-02 (score 54, 0)

- [security] Stability: 0.97 → pass

### 2026-11-01 (score 54, 0)

- [functional] Stability: pass → 0.97

### 2026-10-26 (score 54, 0)

- [security] Stability: 0.97 → pass

### 2026-10-25 (score 54, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-23 (score 53, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 87 to 90. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 26 days of observed history at the previous scan, 27 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-21 (score 52, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 80 to 83. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 24 days of observed history at the previous scan, 25 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-19 (score 51, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 73 to 77. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 22 days of observed history at the previous scan, 23 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-17 (score 50, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 67 to 70. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 20 days of observed history at the previous scan, 21 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (13)

### `pdf_info` (~70 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: Page count, metadata, table of contents summary, scanned-page detection.)

### `pdf_search` (~69 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: Hybrid keyword and semantic search inside one PDF, with paragraph excerpts.)

### `pdf_read_pages` (~71 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: Read specific pages, with OCR, tables, and images on demand.)

### `pdf_read_all` (~69 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: Read a whole document in one call, size-capped.)

### `pdf_get_toc` (~63 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: Full table of contents.)

### `pdf_render_pages` (~69 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: Render pages as images for diagrams, handwriting, and scans.)

### `pdf_extract_chart` (~71 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: Chart data as exact (x, y) tables from plot geometry.)

### `pdf_corpus_warm` (~69 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: Index a folder of PDFs within a time budget.)

### `pdf_corpus_overview` (~69 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: One triage card per document in a folder.)

### `pdf_corpus_search` (~72 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: Search across every PDF in a folder, with document and page provenance.)

### `pdf_cache_stats` (~64 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: Cache size and per-document breakdown.)

### `pdf_cache_clear` (~64 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: Clear expired or all cache entries.)

### `server_info` (~67 tokens)

UNAVAILABLE: pdf-mcp could not finish setting up. pdf-mcp could not download a component it needs to finish setting up. Check that this computer is connected to the internet, then quit and reopen Claude Desktop. (When working: Which optional features, settings, and updates are active.)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jztan-pdf-mcp/https-github-com-jztan-pdf-mcp-releases-download-v3-4-0-pdf-mcp-3-4-0-mcpb#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 54
- 2026-11-04: 54
- 2026-11-03: 54
- 2026-11-02: 54
- 2026-11-01: 54
- 2026-10-31: 54
- 2026-10-30: 54
- 2026-10-29: 54
- 2026-10-28: 54
- 2026-10-27: 54
- 2026-10-26: 54
- 2026-10-25: 54
- 2026-10-24: 53
- 2026-10-23: 53
- 2026-10-22: 52
- 2026-10-21: 52
- 2026-10-20: 51
- 2026-10-19: 51
- 2026-10-18: 50
- 2026-10-17: 50
- 2026-10-16: 49
- 2026-10-15: 49
- 2026-10-14: 48
- 2026-10-13: 48
- 2026-10-12: 47
- 2026-10-10: 47
- 2026-10-07: 45
- 2026-10-04: 44
- 2026-10-03: 43
- 2026-10-02: 39

## Common questions

### What is the io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp server?

io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp is listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp. Agentic RAG over one PDF or a whole folder: hybrid search, selective page reads, tables, OCR. This page covers its MCPB bundle (https://github.com/jztan/pdf-mcp/releases/download/v3.6.0/pdf-mcp-3.6.0.mcpb).

### Is the io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp server safe to use?

io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp scores 54 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp server expose?

io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp exposes 13 tools: pdf_info, pdf_search, pdf_read_pages, pdf_read_all, pdf_get_toc, and 8 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 887 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### What licence is the io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp server under?

io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp server?

VerifyMCP ran 12 checks on io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp, covering Source repository, Provenance, License, Maintenance and 8 more. 4 items could not be completed, a gap on our side rather than a finding about io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp: Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts and Dependency health. One category scores 0 for that reason, because we only credit what we can confirm. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an MCPB bundle, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- Repository: https://github.com/jztan/pdf-mcp
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jztan-pdf-mcp/https-github-com-jztan-pdf-mcp-releases-download-v3-4-0-pdf-mcp-3-4-0-mcpb.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jztan-pdf-mcp/https-github-com-jztan-pdf-mcp-releases-download-v3-4-0-pdf-mcp-3-4-0-mcpb/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/jztan-pdf-mcp/https-github-com-jztan-pdf-mcp-releases-download-v3-4-0-pdf-mcp-3-4-0-mcpb.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/jztan-pdf-mcp/https-github-com-jztan-pdf-mcp-releases-download-v3-4-0-pdf-mcp-3-4-0-mcpb